Presented by the National Theatre of Scotland, Aberdeen Performing Arts, and Peacock Visual Arts, The Fierce Urgency of Now brings an evening of food, discussion, and artistic provocations around climate change to Aberdeen.
The evening event is part of the UK-wide Season for Change, a programme of cultural responses celebrating the environment and inspiring urgent action on climate change. It will feature a curated participatory meal by community food growing project The Town is the Garden, live music from Simon Gall of Scottish musical duo Clype, and special artistic sharings generated through National Theatre of Scotland’s Engine Room initiative One Day to Play.
As part of One Day to Play, six local artists from across different art forms will be matched into pairs to generate a brand new idea that responds to issues around climate change, and will work together over the course of one day towards presenting ten minutes of their work as part of The Fierce Urgency of Now. The pairs will be facilitated and guided by director and award-winning theatre maker Jenna Watt, as well as being assigned a climate change expert or activist to provide them with a provocation and to work with them throughout the day. All proceeds from The Fierce Urgency of Now will go to Aberdeen Climate Action as part of St Andrew’s Fair Saturday.
Season for Change, led by Julie’s Bicycle, Artsadmin and Battersea Arts Centre, is running from June to December 2018 and sees the UK’s creative community hosting a season of diverse, multidisciplinary responses across the arts, culture and creative industries. It is the first coordinated national response from artists and arts organisations speaking out together on the future of the planet. The season will coincide with the landmark UN Climate of Parties ‘COP24’ talks taking place in November, critical in meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement.
Engine Room is the National Theatre of Scotland’s artistic development programme. With the Company’s ‘theatre without walls’ ethos at its heart, the programme brings together young Scottish artists to develop skills, networks and create ambitious new work.
Engine Room sets up creative environments across the country, in partnership with local venues and organisations and offers a shifting menu of free and paid invitations and opportunities, including free rehearsal space, ideas surgeries, skill sharing, access to rehearsals and National Theatre of Scotland shows, masterclasses, cross art-form development, script reading, script surgeries and paid writing residencies.
At The Worm, Aberdeen from 6pm -10pm on 01 December 2018
Part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Engine Room programme